Guardian Music — Chris Martin's band send fourth-division cricket club £750, while Jeff Tweedy's group fund two children's baseball teamsColdplay and Wilco have joined the likes of Coca-Cola, Mercedes and, er, Draino by becoming official sponsors of sports teams. Ch... more info

Pitchfork — Sleek-headed Radiohead drummer Phil Selway has a solo album full of folk ballad-type tunes coming out. NME tells us it's called Familial and out August 30 on Bella Union. It features Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche and multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone, f... more info

DrownedInSound — American indie-rockers Wilco are doing their bit for the local community as they've just started sponsoring two little league Baseball teams in America. How very kind of them. Now, I'm no expert, but I think that little league equates to youth baseba... more info

The Quietus — Our oceangaze favourite Walls cosmically vapourise a track from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot more info

Pitchfork — Barcelona's Primavera Sound Festival kicked off its first day with sets from Broken Social Scene, Pavement, the xx, Titus Andronicus, the Books, Fuck Buttons, Moderat, and more, as we reported yesterday. On Day Two, things got... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Eirik Lande Memorial Day weekend is here in just a few hours, which means summer unofficially starts right about now. Among many other awesome things, that means we're now heading straight into summer festival season. If you've got the t... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — So this is it? This is what we've been waiting three years for? In a rather lackadaisical and unexciting move compared to the viral campaign that brought us Noreen Bauble and 1-866-NEON-BIBLE, Arcade Fire announced their new album The Suburbs via a... more info

Guardian Music — Last time was all about the pleasures of live music. This week, it's songs with minimal lyrical contentBeltway Bandit observed that the "pool of genres might be narrower this week", and his prediction was correct. In fact, one genre stuck out above a... more info

Guardian Music — Live performance is claimed to be the future of the music industry, so it's only appropriate we commemorate its grand history with this crowd-sourced playlistEvery concert is unique. While CDs can be ripped and every MP3 shared, nothing can replicate... more info

NME — Former Wilco member died last year more info